| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly. The fact that
any course of human action leading to adjustment, leads also to immediate
suffering, by dividing the individual from the bulk of his fellows; is no
argument against it; that solitude and suffering is the crown of thorns
which marks the kingship of earth's Messiahs: it is the mark of the
leader.
Thus, social disco-ordination, and subjective conflict and suffering,
pervade the life of our age, making themselves felt in every division of
human life, religious, political, and domestic; and, if they are more
noticeable, and make themselves more keenly felt in the region of sex than
in any other, even the religious, it is because when we enter the region of
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: as if they were his own."
"I know. Ask me," muttered Jorgenson, mechanically.
Mrs. Travers said nothing but made a slight movement and her
whole rigid figure swayed dangerously. Lingard put his arm firmly
round her waist and she did not seem aware of it till after she
had turned her head and found Lingard's face very near her own.
But his eyes full of concern looked so close into hers that she
was obliged to shut them like a woman about to faint.
The effect this produced upon Lingard was such that she felt the
tightening of his arm and as she opened her eyes again some of
the colour returned to her face. She met the deepened expression
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